Caroline's Creations: Jennifer McGuire Ink

Saturday, 8 March 2014

Say "Hello" to Dynamic Duos #93

Good morning, crafty friends.

This week, it is soft & subtle time, over at the Dynamic Duos:

While I find this one of the harder themes in DD's monthly line-up, this time I had a bunch of ideas in mind and they came together beautifully (I think!).

First off is the card design, which I CASE'd from The Stamps of Life website. They recently launched a die set of cute little flowers and I wanted to try the idea of little blossoms cut from vellum. I found some pink vellum at Michael's and hand-coloured plain vellum to get a sandy shade.

Second is the dimensional greeting. I am a big fan of Jennifer McGuire, and love her tutorials. Cutting the sentiment multiple times from card-stock and layering them really was "quick and easy to do," as she likes to say. While I used a die, my blogging friend Hansi has had success doing the same thing with images from an electronic cutter (which gives INFINITE possibilities!).

Third idea was to use PEARLS somehow, a recent theme from Simon Says Stamp blog. Here I used opalescent pigment ink to colour my "hello" and also tinted some pearls with alcohol markers.

Okay, enough about me and my card; time to check out the projects by my talented team-mates at the Dynamic Duos.

Hope you'll be inspired to join us and play along this week!

Happy crafting,

Caroline

Supplies:

Cardstock in Champagne, Blush and White Daisy (CTMH)

Vellum: pink, plain (Michael's); dotted (Paper Wishes)

Pearlescent ink: Dew Drop Brilliance by Tsukineko in Pearl Beige

Dies: Ornate label framelits (The Stamps of Life); "hello" (The Crafter's Workshop.com); assorted flower dies by Sizzix and Cuttlebug/Provocraft.

Corner-rounder

Copic Markers

Pearls

Saturday, 18 January 2014

Back to Business! Dynamic Duos #86

The crafting world gets back to normal after this year's CHA...

It was fun seeing the sneak peeks of products and people. One of my favorites is Jennifer McGuire. This week's Dynamic Duos card is a tribute to her!

First, the colour challenge:

Its soft and subtle week, with an aqua and dusty rose combination.

I reproduced an effect Jennifer demonstrated HERE: she calls it "faux letterpress."

It involves using a cutting plate to emboss onto watercolour paper, then using Distress Markers to "paint" the resulting image. Here's the materials I used:

The Distress Markers are evergreen bough and tattered rose.

The cutting plate is Lil' Inker's swirls cover-up die.

Here's the card:

I couldn't bear to cover up that lovely organic image, so I heat-embossed my sentiment onto vellum, another technique I've been seeing lately. I used some more Lil' Inker products: Spot On stamp set--great big sentiment words and cute circular accents; and their new On the diagonal die which has the LID distinctive stitched edge. I machine-stitched the banner onto the card and left the thread ends hanging. Another new thing, but it has me itching to trim them!